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intercape.co.za

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Page Load Speed

16.3 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

13.5 sec

Page Rendered

453 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Intercape content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about intercape.co.za

Intercape is the largest intercity bus service, with coaches operating in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Intercape.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 13.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

intercape.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.intercape.co.za

2396 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

707 ms

layerslider.css

709 ms

css

24 ms

styles.css

483 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Intercape.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Intercape.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (32%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Intercape.co.za main page is 5.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 196.1 kB

  • Original 233.1 kB
  • After minification 230.8 kB
  • After compression 37.0 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 196.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 176.1 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Intercape images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 789.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 337.0 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 789.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 488.1 kB

  • Original 551.6 kB
  • After minification 458.4 kB
  • After compression 63.5 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Intercape.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 488.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (36%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Intercape. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

intercape.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Intercape.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Intercape.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Intercape. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: